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Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work is strenuous, repetitive and sometimes dangerous — precisely the sorts of problems industrial robotics are built to solve. The other thing construction brings is a wide range…

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, OpenAI stunned the blogosphere with the release of Sora, a new AI model that can generate videos in impressively high fidelity. We’ve seen video generators before. But what makes Sora unique is its understanding of time…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinCTO of Pipedrive with expertise in scaling technology and organizations. Experienced as an innovator, founder and C-level manager. getty Here’s a prediction of the astoundingly obvious, followed by a suggestion that is a little deeper than how you might first read it: 2024 is going to surprise the business…

The global video game industry makes more money each year than movies and music combined. But that doesn’t mean the sector was immune to the macroeconomic impacts of the last few years. Gaming companies have held sizable layoffs, and venture funding to the category hit a five-year low in 2023. But VCs are optimistic that…

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I’m having one of those weeks where I’m just constantly, very slowly shaking my head at people. As I sat down to read all the stories…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin business people discussing during meeting in board room at corporate office getty As enterprises grapple with the aftermath of AI’s dramatic entrance onto the tech stage, it’s clear that integrating AI into their core strategies is now a competitive imperative. However, renowned expert and Forbes Contributor Bernard Marr…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThis is the published version of Forbes’ CIO newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief innovation officers and other technology-focused leaders. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. AI is used by a variety of companies and groups to build efficiency, do deep research,…

There have been many attempts at open source AI-powered voice assistants (see Rhasspy, Mycroft and Jasper, to name a few) — all established with the goal of creating privacy-preserving, offline experiences that don’t compromise on functionality. But development’s proven to be extraordinarily slow. That’s because, in addition to all the usual challenges attendant with open…

Few joys in this cold world can match cracking open a new comic on a lazy Sunday morning. Nothing to do, nowhere to be — just you, a mug of coffee and some sequential art. Not much has fundamentally changed about the American comic book since publishers began collecting newspaper strips as bound volumes in…

Some believe this new technology will threaten their careers…